ID: 10182
Date of birth : 1867
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Jósef Jósafatsson was born in 1867 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð) on November 26, 1933.
Spouse: June 17, 1921 Líneik Benjamínsdóttir b. September 25, 1892.
Childless.
He came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1888 and stayed there for a while. He moved to the Vallar settlement (Gerald) in Saskatchewan in 1904 and lived there. He was the brother-in-law of Þorsteinn Sigurðsson who also took land there in 1904. From there Jósef moved in 1912 to Mozart in the Lakes settlement (Vatnabyggð).